April 23, 2011

Trust and Freedom

"I just don't trust that people are smart enough to make the right choices.  Do you really think that there are enough intelligent people to have this kind of freedom?"  This is a sentiment that I've heard many times from seemingl...

October 31, 2010

Government Power Undermines Empathy

Empathy: The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communi...

September 25, 2010

Power and Hypocrisy

People in positions of power are very susceptible to behaving in ways that contradict their own public dictates. And the more legitimate they believe their power to be, the more brazenly they will do what they tell others not to do.Barrack Obama atta...

September 12, 2010

Yes, in Fact, We Are Radical

"Radical: of relating to, or proceeding from a root."  - Merriam-Webster's dictionaryWhen the left attacks those of us who value our founding principles as "too radical," some of us may be tempted to respond, "We are not...